AI Developer Senior

Intact FC • Montreal, QC

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

We’re looking for a Senior AI Developer to join our growing team! Our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we help people, businesses, and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times. Our employee promise represents Intact’s commitment to you in exchange for living our Values, striving to do your best work, being open to change and investing in your career. In return, we promise to provide support, opportunities and performance-led financial rewards at a workplace where you can shape the future, win as a team and grow with us. This role is a new member of our growing team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, computer science, or any combination of equivalent education and experience.
• Minimum 6 years of significant experience in development
• Strong in Python and Angular/React
• Proficient in AI-assisted coding.
• Experience with automated testing on the backend and UI and familiarity with observability tools and practices
• Proficiency with Cloud Infrastructure (ideally AWS), containers, IaC (Terraform), CI/CD, and observability
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate business problems into technical solutions; proactive, change agent, and collaborative team player.
• Ability to make complex concepts easy to understand.
• Strong data engineering skills.
• For candidates located in Quebec, bilingualism (FR-EN) is required due to frequent collaboration with English-speaking colleagues across Canada.
• Must be eligible to work in Canada.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience with Databricks technologies like Unity Catalog and Delta Lake is considered an asset.
• Good understanding of GenAI building blocks: prompting techniques, agentic frameworks, evals, guardrails, RAG, embeddings/vectorDBs, model fine tuning, graphDB usage with LLMs, MCP, reasoning models.
• Knowledge of MLOps best practices would be an asset

Responsibilities

• Integrate AI solutions tailored to improve the business’ operational processes, ensuring robustness, performance, scalability, reliability, and observability.
• Ensure seamless integration of AI-driven solutions with existing insurance operations systems, coordinating with IT and operations teams to align on technical requirements and deployment strategies.
• Work closely with data scientists and analysts to ensure AI solutions are effectively addressing business needs by leveraging high-quality data and aligning with strategic goals.
• Stay up to date with advancements in Software Engineering and AI, applying new techniques and methodologies to enhance the capabilities and efficiency of deployed solutions, while also contributing to the team's knowledge base.
• Own end-to-end delivery of features: data pipelines, models, APIs/services, front end UI
• Use CI/CD tools and agile methodology to ensure fast and reliable delivery of features and updates.
• Play a Technical Leader / Mentor role for Squad members and influence the technical roadmap.

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work model
• Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year
• Multiple benefits offered to support physical and mental wellbeing, including telemedicine, Wellness account and much more
• Share plan & other savings: up to 12% of salary or even more (ask how you could earn guaranteed income for life)
• Annual bonus target, based on the base salary, with a potential payout of up to double the target (subject to personal and company performance): 12%
• Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) – with Intact matching 50% of your net shares.
• Pension offerings provide flexibility and long-term security for our employees beyond their careers.
• Opportunity to receive guaranteed income for life via our defined benefit pension plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior